Links to News & Views   Back to Home Page... Dialogue On Farmers’ Bill – Cartoon - K P Sasi Climate crisis: Lakes to shrink - Sidharth Bhatia The Dissenting and Defiant Citizen Is Indian of the Year - Sidharth Bhatia The cost of voicing dissent: UAPA against G.N. 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Spear Welcome to the USA: a place where bad ideas never die - Ian Hughes The Pandemic Has Only Exposed the Suicidal Tendencies of Capitalism: Noam Chomsky - Jipson John and Jitheesh P.M. If there is no additional borrowing, there can be no additional expenditure, no fiscal stimulus - P Chidambaram Watch | 'Govt Is Exploiting Lockdown to Play Politics of Vendetta': Kanhaiya Kumar - Arfa Khanum Sherwani Watch | How Rightwing Websites Pushed Lie to Spread Communal Tension in Bihar - Mahtab Alam Lockdown That Hurts Poor Can’t Defeat COVID: Govt Task Force Doctor - Dr Smarajit Jana also suggested that there is just one way to battle and co-exist with COVID P. Chidamabaram—Modi Government a Prisoner of Ignorance and Its Own Fears I Mitali Mukherjee - The Wire Workers of India, You’ve Everything to Lose Including Your Wages And Labour Rights - K P Sasi Non-ending of miseries of workers - Press Release Far From Helping Workers, the Adityanath Govt Is Bent on Snatching Away Their Rights - Subhashini Ali In a Post-COVID-19 World, the Only One Way Ahead for India Is Economic Federalism - Romi Khosla MSMEs Face Unbelievable Disaster, Poor Forgotten: Jayati Ghosh on Modi’s Package - Karan Thapar New Zealand: After Islamophobic Posts, Kiwi-Indian Expelled From Justices of Peace Association - The Wire Staff Rahul Gandhi Interacts With Migrant Workers Amid Lockdown - PTI Trump Says Doctors and Nurses “Running Into Death” Is “Beautiful Thing to See” - Chris Walker Great Opportunity to Promote REVERSE Migration to Villages - Prem Verma Islamophobia Is Worsening the Anxieties of the Lockdown - Hanan Zaffar and Jyoti Thakur Oppose Dilution of Labour Laws!! - People's Union For Civil Liberties How ‘ordinary’ people can show us ways out of global crises - Ashish Kothari COVID-19 and a Valuable Lesson from Grassroots India, Ignored - James Manor Hunger Gnaws at the Edges of the World - Vijay Prasad RSS-Backed Trade Union BMS to Protest Suspension of Labour Laws in BJP-Ruled States - PTI Mumbai Police Land at Arrested Activist’s House to Inquire About His Whereabouts - The Wire Staff Mumbai Police Land at Arrested Activist’s House to Inquire About His Whereabouts - The Wire Staff The Coolies of Kishkindha - Satya Sagar Scrapping Labour Laws will Double Economic Inequality - Press Release The COVID Crisis: Tsunami for the Poor - S G Vombatkere Corona Pandemic: Time for politicisation of labour consciousness - Dr Prem Singh International Nurses’ Day 2020: Plights and Prospects of Frontline “Corona” Warriors - Dr Maya John Himachal Pradesh: 10 FIRs Against 6 Journalists For Reports, Posts on Lockdown - The Wire Staff Watch | 'COVID Deaths to Spurt as Lockdown Ends But Alternative is Hunger – Even Death – for Crores' - Karan Thapar Cuba asks U.S for answers to the attack on its embassy in Washington DC - Countercurrents Collective Remembering the uprising - Athar Husain COVID-19 deaths among nurses: U.S. 91, Canada 0. Why? - Mark Gruenberg Humans are not herds: WHO thrashes brutal arithmetic of herd immunity to beat coronavirus pandemic - Countercurrents Collective Social Media In COVID Times - Sehba Jamal Trump responsible for deaths in U.S. and globally because of Covid-19 response, says Chomsky - Countercurrents Collective COVID19: Analysis of Impact and Relief Measures - Studies and efforts being conducted by Azim Premji University as well as partner institutions, Civil Society Organisations and individuals Centre must address privacy concerns, and ensure greater transparency on Aarogya Setu - Rajeev Gowda All major economies will be drawn into US-China contestations over international trade - C. Raja Mohan Food is a Necessity, So is Making it Available - Hari Vasudevan Three Press Photographers From Kashmir Win Pulitzer Prize - Countercurrents Collective Who’s decoupling from whom? - David P. Goldman Politics and COVID-19: Will the Pandemic Result in State Power Expanding? - Ronojoy Sen The Myth of 'Sanskrit Villages' and the Realm of Soft Power - Patrick McCartney Who Is my Aargoya Setu Data Shared With? Govt Group Releases Data Protocol - The Wire Staff Trump Admin Wants to Cut Social Security in Exchange for Direct COVID Payments - Jake Johnson Reflections on the history of Mother’s Day - Heather Cox Richardson Hari Vasudevan: Historian, Gentleman and Beloved Teacher - Jawhar Sircar Don’t Suspend Labour Laws - E A S Sarma Watch | UP Labour Law Ordinance: 'An Attempt at Labour Exploitation, India Pushed Back to 19th Century' - Mitali Mukherjee No Food, Water, Toilets: Life After Testing Positive for Delhi Health Care Workers - Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar Not Just the Aurangabad Accident, 383 People Have Died Due to the Punitive Lockdown - Kabir Agarwal Now, Reports Find Delhi Government Under-Reporting COVID-19 Deaths - The Wire Staff Scheer Intelligence: Does Medicare For All Await Us At The End Of This Viral Massacre? - Robert Scheer The Pandemic is Changing the Face of Indian Labour - Arun Kumar Final days of the war against fascism—from the Daily Worker archives - Ann Stringer Dr Zafar ul Islam Khan must be protected from all harassment and intimidation - Vidya Bhushan Rawat COVID-19: Odisha Workers Stranded Because They Don’t Have Aadhaar - Rakhi Ghosh 'You Can't go Back': Migrant Workers Told in Tamil Nadu - Karuna Dietrich Wielenga Surat: As Workers Raise Pitch for Train, BJP Member Dupes Hundreds With Ticket Promise - The Wire Staff Religious Rites in the Time of COVID-19 - Sumanta Banerjee Cyber Crime: An Evil Spatula of the Virtual World - SN Surajbhan Social movements in and beyond the COVID-19 crisis: sharing stories of struggles - In Interface Late Madhu Limaye - Qurban Ali Corona And The Fascist Crackdown On Students - Aysha Abdhul Jaleel Free Rations, Transport Facility and Dignity for Stranded Migrants - Right To Food Campaign UK government covers up PPE shortages leading to health care worker deaths - Alice Summers The Centre Cannot Get Away With Ignoring Migrant Workers Completely - Ajay Gudavarthy Meher Engineer—A Requiem for a Man of Reckonable Height - Prof Sibaji Raha, Ashoke Mukherjee Why Is Anand Teltumbde So Dangerous for the Narendra Modi Government? - Jignesh Mevani, Meena Kandasamy Stop the Witch-Hunt of Activists and Journalists in Delhi and Kashmir and Repeal the Draconian UAPA! - Campaign Against State Repression, 24 April 2020 Women Lead the Fight Against Coronavirus - Mantasha Ansari Justice Lokur, Prashant Bhushan and Mahua Moitra on the Supreme Court’s Functioning During Corona Times - Karan Thapar From Aadhaar to Aarogya Setu: How Surveillance Technology is Devaluing India’s Democratic Rights - Kalyani Menon Sen Is Private Health ‘Industry’ a Big Hurdle to Contain COVID-19? - Bobby Ramakant, Shobha Shukla and Sandeep Pandey Why I feel ashamed of being a journalist - Abhay Kumar Vande Bharat and Samudra Setu: The Much Awaited India’s Biggest Evacuation Missions after Independence - Lirar Pulikkalakath Implement MGNREGA to Deal with Unemployment Crisis, Eminent Citizens Urge Rural Development Ministry - Newsclick Report (1 May 2020) The anti-vaxx agenda of 'Plandemic' - Derek Beres 'Judiciary Should Be Humane, it Should Stand by Poor', Justice Deepak Gupta Says in Farewell Speech - Deepak Gupta Delhi: Court asks police to submit report on Jan 5 rampage - Express News Service In Photos: As Lockdown Distress Continues, More Migrants Begin Walking Home - Shome Basu Aarogya Setu app is an arbitrary intrusion into privacy; bid to subvert Constitution through backdoor - Barun Das Gupta Lockdown: Gujarat Power Plant Worker Dies Trying to Cycle Home to Uttar Pradesh Village - The Wire Staff When Govt Committee Said ‘No CSR’ for PM Relief Funds, Why the Sop for PM CARES? - Sanchitta Sridhar The Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory Doesn't Add Up. It's Also a Self-Defeating Diversion - Manoj Joshi Leaked CDC “Reopening” Guide Was Rejected by Trump for Being Too Cautious - Chris Walker Yemen Ceasefire Between Houthis and Saudi-Backed Forces Takes New Turn - Martin Jay How do we build a society less susceptible to debt, disease, devastation? - Ela R. Bhatt Invasion foiled in Venezuela - Countercurrents Collective Why the Solicitor General Is Wrong to Call for PILs to Be Scrapped - Jagdeep S. Chhokar Supreme Court Has Let Down Migrant Workers And The Vulnerable: Justice A.P. Shah Karan Thapar - Karan Thapar 2% Emergency Coronatax on the Wealth of the Richest 1% - Press Release PM CARES fund: Need for a full public disclosure - E A S Sarma COVID-19: Phones Without 'Aarogya Setu' App Will Amount to Lockdown Violation in Noida - PTI 1100 Feminists Across India Condemn Crackdown On Anti-CAA Women Activists In Delhi - Press Release Test Kit Shortage: ICMR's Crucial Mistakes Wasted India's Lockdown - Samarth Bansal, Aman Sethi & Nikhila Henry ILO: Nearly half of all world’s workers may lose their jobs due to COVID-19 pandemic - Abdul Rahman Coronavirus Survivors Want Answers, and China Is Silencing Them - Vivian Wang, Amy Qin and Sui-Lee Wee The Lockdown is a Dangerous Experiment, India's Democracy Will Not Emerge Unscathed - A.P. Shah Critical Media Loses Space in India with Rise of Rightist Politics - Jaspal Singh Sidhu Arvind Subramanian on Covid response: ‘We should be driven by need, not affordability’ - Express News Service | Where the world has not been broken… - Mitali Chakravarty Planet Earth Reality Check - David Anderson For Modi Government, Migrant Workers Are Not Citizens - Brinda Karat Justice and Rights In Viral Contexts In India - Kalpana Kannabiran No relief for the nowhere people - Ravi Srivastava PM, rename it WHO CARES - Anita Joshua Watch | 'Condition of Poor an Emergency, Govt Must Open Sluice Gates': Abhijit Banerjee - Karan Thapar The Wire's Founding Editor Among 17 Winners of Deutsche Welle Freedom of Speech Award - The Wire Staff By Withholding Information on PM-CARES and the Lockdown, the PMO Has Violated the RTI Act - M. Sridhar Acharyulu Global Backlash Builds Against China Over Coronavirus - Steven Erlanger The Covid-19 Riddle: Why Does the Virus Wallop Some Places and Spare Others? - Hannah Beech, Alissa J. Rubin, Anatoly Kurmanaev and Ruth Maclean During Coronvrius: Cuba to the rescue, but don’t tell the American people - Medea Benjamin Sedition Case Against Delhi Minorities Commission Chairman - The Wire Staff In Solidarity with Dr Zafarul Islam Khan - Press Release Inhuman treatment of our vital Migrant Population - Prem Verma ‘We want to go home’ - Stan Swamy Jayshree Sengupta Represented the Gracious Qualities That Have Become So Rare - Jayati Ghosh Satyajit Ray: When the Filmmaker Dons His Critic Hat - Anjan Basu The Rise of a Hindu Vigilante in the Age of WhatsApp and Modi - Mohammad Ali Coronavirus found in Paris sewage points to early warning system - Christa Lesté-Lasserre Social movements in and beyond the COVID-19 crisis: sharing stories of struggles - in Interface Supreme Court Grants Prashant Bhushan Interim Protection From Arrest in Gujarat FIR - PTI An Ode to the Indian Worker Reading History - Janaki Nair Watch | Why is the Supreme Court Not Enforcing Peoples' Rights, Asks Justice Lokur - Karan Thapar American Pravda: Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Biowarfare Blowback? - Ron Unz Archive The Myth of Tiananmen - Jay Mathews Wuhan lab was performing coronavirus experiments on bats from the caves where the disease is believed to have originated - with a £3m grant from the US - Glen Owen Why US outsourced bat virus research to Wuhan - Christina Lin Chomsky: COVID-19 Has Exposed the US Under Trump as a “Failed State” - C.J. Polychroniou 'Inhuman Act': Migrant Workers Sent Back to Maharashtra Without Consultation - Sukanya Shantha 'Government Callousness towards Millions Who Are Destitute, Starving Endangers India’s Democracy' - The Wire It's Time to Recognise that Govt Plans Are Oblivious to the Realities of Care Workers - Madhurima Majumder COVID-19 Crisis: Where is Modi’s Fall Guy? - James Manor The Supreme Court of India is a Court of Rights, Not of Contempt - Mahua Moitra Keeping migrant workers from returning home will deepen COVID-19 financial crisis - The Jean Dreze Interview Shall We Change The Status Of Safai Sainiks Now? - Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd Crackdown against Hong Kong activists sparks protest talk - Elizabeth Beattie Indigenous in Colombia take on armed groups - and coronavirus - Hanna Wallis Locking down Leviathan - Suprabha Seshan China Sets Date for Congress, Signaling Coronavirus Is Under Control - Keith Bradsher This is why Singapore’s coronavirus cases are growing: a look inside the dismal living conditions of migrant workers - Wallace Woon An Open Letter to the New New Left From the Old New Left - The Nation Brazil top court orders probe into accusations against Bolsonaro - Aljazeera Explainer: Beijing’s 5-day crackdown on Hong Kong’s opposition during covid-19 - Hong Kong Free Press Pandemic – Lockdown as a social epidemic??? - Dr Anita Christine Tiphagne Halt destruction of nature or suffer even worse pandemics, say world’s top scientists - Damian Carrington India’s poor: Caught between Hunger and Covid 19 - Shah Hussain A Government Waging War Against Its Own People - Sandeep Pandey Halt destruction of nature or suffer even worse pandemics, say world’s top scientists - Damian Carrington Why India Needs Scheduled Tribes to Educate its Future Judges - Nandini Sundar The Beginning of the End for Oil? Energy in a Post-Pandemic World - Michael T Klare What the Great Pandemic Novels Teach Us - Orhan Pamuk Global Pandemic And Global Warming - Binu Mathew Will the Coronavirus Change the World? On Gramsci’s ‘Interregnum’ and Zizek’s Ethnocentric Philosophy - Dr Ramzy Baroud Hindutva Abuse Jeopardises India’s Gulf Ties - Talmiz Ahmad Lockdown no bar for kangaroo court in Uttar Pradesh - Piyush Srivastava Tosamaidan- A zone of peace and resilience in Kashmir - Shrishtee Bajpai and Ashish Kothari Deja vu: another bail out for banks and other giant corporations - Ron Forthofer 'Media, Govt Briefings Are Both Communalising COVID-19; PM Modi's Silence is Deliberate' - Ram Guha The Intricate Dance of Politics and Power During a Pandemic - Sanjaya Baru A Year After RTI Activist Was Killed in Gujarat, Assailants Hack His Son to Death - Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar Caste and contagion - Mukul Kesavan COVID-19 Cure Should Not Become Worse Than The Disease - Prem Verma A Letter To Kannan Gopinathan From A Kashmiri Doctor - Dr Mohsin Ali Afeeri Ambani Family Reshuffled Shares in Reliance Industries Before Facebook Deal - Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Abir Dasgupta Historic Victory of Narmada Bachao Andolon - Samar Bagchi No Muslim Among 101 People Arrested For Palghar Lynching: Maharashtra Minister Anil Deshmukh - PTI Palghar Lynchings and Divisive Propaganda - Ram Puniyani UAPA and the Confusions of the Left in Kerala - K P Sasi Do the dams attenuate or amplify floods? - VT Padmanabhan America’s Great Greenwashing - Robert Hunziker Backstory: In Parallel With the COVID 19 Pandemic, We Now Have a Pandemic of Arrests - Pamela Philipose The Pandemic And The Global Economy - Jayati Ghosh The Left Must Seize This Moment, or Others Will - Alfredo Saad-Filho 1918 flu pandemic killed 12 million Indians, and British overlords’ indifference strengthened the anti-colonial movement - Maura Chhun We Need a Collective Response to the Collective Dilemma of Coronavirus - David Harvey “Suspend external debts and apply tax to the wealthy”, is it possible to face the health crisis? - Eric Toussaint Journalism in the Post-Truth Era - Zulafqar Ahmed Social Distancing leading to Social Indifference, and Irreversible Social Conflicts - P Chandran India Is Scapegoating Muslims for the Spread of the Coronavirus - Sameer Yasir African civil society demands action against Chinese xenophobia and bullying - Arnold Tsunga, Tatenda Mazarura and Mark Heywood More immunity genes in Indians - In Nature India, August 2008 Panchayat Empowerment & Gram Swaraj: Modi’s Vision or Doublespeak? - Ashish Kothari On COVID-19, the Centre Has Foisted All Responsibility on the States - Kapil Sibal Is the Press Council Being Selective in Upholding Media Freedom? - Mahtab Alam Marxism in an age of catastrophe – capitalism created an era of plagues - Mike Davis Marxism and Ecology in a time of pandemic: John Bellamy Foster, Amy Leather & Martin Empson - John Bellamy Foster and Martin Empson Interview with Lolita Chávez: the coronavirus crisis from the K’iche’ Mayan perspective - Translation by A Planeta COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital - Rob Wallace, Alex Liebman, Luis Fernando Chaves and Rodrick Wallace U.N. Chief Says There's a Bigger Threat than Coronavirus - Ryan Heath Revisiting Lenin’s theory of socialist revolution on the 150th anniversary of his birth - David Lane City vs shack dwellers: Occupations and demolitions escalate in Cape Town - Ashraf Hendricks India’s Epidemic Needs Some Empathy, Less Apathy and a Lot More Scientists - K.J. Mukherjee Four Reasons Why Facebook is Buying a Nearly 10% Stake in Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio - The Wire Analysis 101 Former Civil Servants Write to State CMs on Continued Harassment of Muslims - The Wire Staff Distaste For the Political System May Have Been Why German Women Voted for Hitler - Sarah R Warren, Daniel Maier-Katkin, Nathan Stoltzfus Post lockdown, India’s economy should not lapse into ‘permit raj’ - Kaushik Basu Modi’s ghastly Delhi dream - Kapil Komireddi We Are Witnessing the Revolt of the Elites - Arjun Appadurai How Vietnam has been winning its war against “Invisible Enemy” - Vietnam Insider Facebook to Buy 9.9% in Reliance Jio for $5.7 Billion in Largest Tech FDI for Minority Stake - The Wire Staff Corona Lockdown: Not scared of the virus, but we will die of hunger.. - Vivek Sakpal World on brink of a hunger pandemic, says UN food agency chief - Countercurrents Collective “I Grew Up With Indians All My Life, But This Attitude Was Not Indian” - Princess Hend Al Qassimi The ‘2 Rupee Doctor’ Struck Down By COVID-19 - Jinka Nagaraju Lenin: The Rock of Compassion - Justin Theodra Lockdown – Worst Nightmare For The Poor - Sandeep Pandey Open Letter to Workers on COVID-19 - Press Release WHO And China: A Case of Geo-political Misdirection, Who’s at Fault? - Hassanal Noor Rashid U.S. oil market crashes, hundreds of U.S. oil companies could go bankrupt - Countercurrents Collective In Hong Kong, officials work to stop another kind of outbreak: democracy - Michael Bociurkiw The TB Paradox - Pratap Antony Why Is the Police Stonewalling The Wire’s RTI Queries on the Delhi Violence? - Dheeraj Mishra What People Power Looks Like in a Pandemic Democracy - Corey Robin In Photos | The Stillness of Mumbai's Abnormal Quiet - Sudharak Olwe A view from the UK – Coronavirus crisis in suburbia - Kevin Smith Capitalism provides what is superfluous while socialism provides what is necessary - Granma What HT Wouldn't Publish: The Folly and Vanity of the Project to Redesign Delhi - Ramachandra Guha Coronavirus, crisis, and the end of neoliberalism - Alfredo Saad-Filho The Wretched of India - Shambhavi Siddhi Pulwama : Who stood to benefit? - Madhu Bhaduri Why Is the Police Stonewalling The Wire’s RTI Queries on the Delhi Violence? - Dheeraj Mishra COVID-19: Minorities Panel Urges Amit Shah to Stop Harassment of Muslims - The Wire Staff The ‘revolutionary in the garb of a scientist’ - Amitava Chakraborty The need is not to avoid Fiscal Deficit but to save lives - Akhilendra Pratap Singh COVID-19 Lockdown: How India Can Provide Food Grains to Stranded Migrant Labourers - Siraj Hussain The Coronavirus Crisis Demands Everyone Act Responsibly. So What Happened to the Media? - Yashwant Sinha What COVID-19 Does to the Heart - Dr Binoy John US-China Trade War - Naveed Qazi Brutalising Labourers, Jailing Dissidents - Subhash Gatade Finance versus the people in the era of the pandemic - Prabhat Patnaik Statesmanship requires taking people along; when basic security is denied, hope dies - Nikhil Dey and Aruna Roy Missing Parliament and the judiciary in the Covid crisis - Dushyant Dave Mutilation of CSR is bad in law - Sankar Ray “Gangster in the White House” - Noam Chomsky on COVID-19, WHO, China, Gaza and Global Capitalism The Myth of the V-Shaped Recovery - Andrew Soergel Nationalism, Chauvinism and the Students’ Protest - Ish N Mishra Lockdown And Economic Crisis - Nijam Gara Undaunted Cuba defies the Empire and extends hands of solidarity to continents - Farooque Chowdhury Government must seize the private labs and hospitals and open its resources - Joint statement in support of the Public Health Service Campaign How Kerala has flattened the Corona curve - Jayanta Basu COVID-19: Dalit Woman Says She was Beaten up, Denied Rations in Saharanpur - Alya Ekta Under India's caste system, Dalits are considered untouchable. The coronavirus is intensifying that slur - Priyali Sur Has the coronavirus lockdown increased health risks in mining areas? - Kanchi Kohli Bolsonaro fires popular health minister after dispute over coronavirus response - Dom Phillips If We're at 'War' With the New Coronavirus, We're Doing It Wrong - Vasudevan Mukunth Overcoming a pandemic is not like fighting a war - Amartya Sen Communalization of Coronavirus, and Health Prospects of Muslims - Basharat Hassan U.S. assault on WHO - Countercurrents Collective The Black Hole of Sedition Law - Kabir Deb A long haul, spend wisely, but don’t skimp on the truly needy - Amartya Sen, Raghuram Rajan, Abhijit Banerjee The WHO balance sheet: How it is funded, where it spends - Abantika Ghosh On Birth Anniversary, Resolution in US Congress on B.R. Ambedkar's Contributions - The Wire Staff Amartya Sen on The Wire, the Police and Beyond - Amartya Sen The Green New Deal: Breaking New Ground? - Ashish Kothari 40 Poets seek immediate release of Varavara Rao - Press Release Rebuilding After Corona - John Scales Avery Migrant Workers and the Inadequacy of Welfare Measures in India: A Report - Press Release Coronavirus Lockdown: The Seven and a Half Things that Modi Said and Did Not Say - Shuddhabrata Sengupta Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha Surrender: A Blot On Democracy - Press Release Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha Surrender: A Blot On Democracy - Press Release A Letter from Gautam Navlakha As He Prepares To Face Arrest - Gautam Navlakha Gautam Navalakha and Anand Teltumbde should be given time to surrender until the end of Corona pandemic - People's Union For Civil Liberties Why Is Anand Teltumbde So Dangerous for the Narendra Modi Government? - Jignesh Mevani and Meena Kandasamy Exploring Citizenship - Dunu Roy Virtual rally for Saibaba held in Canada - Press Release What Will Politics Look Like in the Post-Pandemic World? - Monobina Gupta COVID-19 and the opportunity to re-evaluate socialism - Deeptangshu Kar & Jagriti Pandey To Heal From COVID-19, We Must Imagine a Different World - Noam Chomsky, Robert Pollin and CJ Polychroniou 'Especially Inhuman': Romila Thapar, Others Write to CJI Bobde On Teltumbde, Navlakha - The Wire Staff The Untimely Death of Playwright Activist Safdar Hashmi - Sudhanva Deshpande International Human Rights Group Urges Parliament to Repeal CAA - Mahtab Alam Economy in India: Looming Catastrophe - Dr Arun Kumar “The Coronavirus Pandemic is Part of a Multidimensional Crisis of Capitalism” - Eric Toussaint interviewed by the newspaper L’Anticapitaliste (France) Prashant Kishor on What the Coronavirus and Lockdown Crises Will Mean for Indian Politics - The Wire Some Basic Lessons from the Pandemic - Prabhat Patnaik To Heal From COVID-19, We Must Imagine a Different World - Noam Chomsky, Robert Pollin and CJ Polychroniou 'The impossible has already happened': what coronavirus can teach us about hope - Rebecca Solnit King Covid Rules - Satya Sagar Caught between the devil Coronavirus and deep sea communalsim - Mustafa Khan The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is on fire and radiation levels are spiking - Countercurrents Collective On Passion - T Vijayendra John Lennon in Quarantine: a Letter From Havana - Merriam Ansara We Need Solidarity, Not Sanctions - John Scales Avery Noam Chomsky on Trump’s Disastrous Coronavirus Response, Bernie Sanders & What Gives Him Hope - In Democracy Now ICMR Data Shows Community Transmission Has Begun in Parts of India - The Wire Staff Depositors facing double whammy of keeping savings and paying for bank losses - Shivani Dwivedi Ventilator Shortage Exposes the Cruelty of Neoliberal Capitalism - Noam Chomsky How Will Modi and the Chief Ministers Get Us Out of the Coronavirus Chakravyuh? - M.K. Venu COVID-19: A Way to Test More People With Fewer Kits - Atanu Biswas Tablighi Jamaat event and COVID-19: Scientists Condemn Attempts To Communalise The Pandemic - Press Release COVID-19 Testing: The unintended disruptions created by the Supreme Court of India - Shariq Us Sabah Excess stocks of the Food Corporation of India must be released to the poor - Jean Dreze COVID-19: ILO predicts 195 million job losses, 400 million in India will fall deeper into poverty - Countercurrents Collective No real relief for NDTV as it receives fresh notice in alleged money laundering case - Sabrangindia Break the food lockdown | The Indian Express - Amit Erich Fromm’s Marxist Sociology forty years later - In MR Online Venezuela’s Coronavirus Response Might Surprise You - Leonardo Flores China and Cuba’s medical internationalism is a shining example of global solidarity - Danny Haiphong When Muslim Women Became My Saviour - Sandeep Pandey Excess stocks of the Food Corporation of India must be released to the poor - Jean Dreze Why the ‘Gujarat Model of Development’ Has Seen the Highest COVID-19 Fatality Rate - Sanjeev Kumar Nirmala Sitharaman Should Remember That a Stimulus Delayed Is a Quick Recovery Denied - Pulapre Balakrishnan 'We will have many body bags.’ WHO chief responds to Trump’s criticisms - Jon Cohen Overcoming a pandemic may look like fighting a war, but the real need is far from that - Amartya Sen Bernie Sanders Drops Out of the 2020 Presidential Race - Chris Walker Bernie Sanders Drops Out of 2020 Democratic Race for President - Sydney Ember India Could Be on the Brink of a Coronavirus Catastrophe — and Modi Will Be to Blame - Asif Bukhari ‘The pandemic is a portal’ - Arundhati Roy UK Rights Organisations condemn the imminent arrest of Prof Dr Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha - Press Release After COVID-19, We All Should Be Cuba - Subhash Gatade India needs more testing, not lockdown - Rabi Banerjee Democratic Socialism Will Soon Replace Capitalism - Dan Lieberman Stop the attempt to intimidate independent media! - Indian Cultural Forum Infantalization, creating idiots by Light - Vinod Kumar Edachery Don’t call us corona. 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